The Perspective of the Acting Person : Essays in the Renewal of Thomistic Moral Philosophy.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: by William F. Murphy Jr. -- 1. Is Christian Morality Reasonable? On the Difference between Secular and Christian Humanism -- 2. Norm-Ethics, Moral Rationality, and the Virtues: What's Wrong with Consequentialism? -- 3. "Intrinsically Evil Acts" and the Moral Viewpoint: Clarifying a Central Teaching of Veritatis Splendor -- 4. Intentional Actions and the Meaning of Object: A Reply to Richard McCormick -- 5. Practical Reason and the "Naturally Rational": On the Doctrine of the Natural Law as a Principle of Praxis in Thomas Aquinas -- 6. The Moral Significance of Pre-Rational Nature in Aquinas: A Reply to Jean Porter (and Stanley Hauerwas) -- 7. The Cognitive Structure of the Natural Law and the Truth of Subjectivity -- 8. The Perspective of the Acting Person and the Nature of Practical Reason: The "Object of the Human Act" in Thomistic Anthropology of Action -- 9. Practical Reason and the Truth of Subjectivity: The Self-Experience of the Moral Subject at the Roots of Metaphysics and Anthropology -- 10. Review of Jean Porter's Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of the Natural Law -- Bibliography -- Martin Rhonheimer's Publications -- Index.

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